Project Manager, Biometrics

We are seeking a Project Manager with excellent presentation and communication skills for Technical Services only projects on our Biometrics Team within our Strategic Partnerships Group. This position can be based in King of Prussia or Home-Based within North America.

In this role, the selected candidate will provide leadership and support to the Biometrics team including developing and maintaining close working relationships with client's project management and all relevant client teams to ensure client satisfaction and operational / customer service excellence; establishing and maintaining oversight for all Biometrics timelines and deliverables; managing client expectations with respect to scope of work and Biometrics deliverables.; ensuring efficient cross−functional hand−offs and proactively plan for downstream tasks. Also, the selected candidate will responsible for developing and maintaining project plans, trackers and any project-specific documentation along with maintaining a close working relationship with internal Biometrics team members; providing project progress updates including status and potential issues and recommendations for issues resolution to appropriate staff; ensure that quality control procedures and checks have been performed on all key deliverables assuring that they are of high quality before release to the Client

Additionally, the selected candidate will ensure that the projects teams are communicating, interacting and cooperating for success; initiate start up meeting and documentation; schedule necessary meetings internally and externally and ensure that meeting minutes are prepared; track budget and scope changes, obtain client approvals for change in scope of work and initiate and follow up on change order/contract amendment activities; determine and manage project resource needs and utilization according to project contract and contract amendments; monitor profitability with Finance and Management and responsible for project revenues and margin as needed; ensure team training and the project documentation is complete, current and audit ready; and provide leadership

· At least three years project management Experience preferably in CRO, biotech or pharmaceutical setting. Global or large trial Experience preferred.

Knowledge of CDISC processes (SDTM and ADaM) is required.

Experience

* Demonstrated ability to project manage, e.g., motivate, lead and prioritize workload for a diverse team and well established Experience with project plans, including Communications Plans and Risk Management Plans.

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If you’d like to work for us, please submit your resume/CV online. If your ability to use or access our electronic application is limited due to a disability, please visit www.gettinghired.com or call 1-800-978-4473 for help.

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If your application is selected, someone from our recruiting team will contact you to arrange an initial screen. We may carry this out over the phone or at a face-to-face meeting. You must complete the screen to be considered for the position.

Based on the results of the initial screen, we may invite you to an interview. One of our recruiting team members will contact you to arrange this. The process may involve several interviews, initially over the phone, and then face-to-face with different members of the hiring team.

Our interviews follow a behavioral-based format. This means we’ll ask you to give us information that’s specific to your professional and educational experiences.

Hiring team members will share and discuss their input and then make their decision.

If you’re the person who best meets the requirements of the position, a member of the hiring team will get in touch to make you an offer of employment. Covance is an eVerify employer (United States only).